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In The Winery

Designed For the Most

Discriminating Winemakers

• Our bottling lines are maintained to
the highest standards

• Pricing & flexibility options -
unmatched!

• Smooth & efficient production

• 15 trucks proudly serving CA,
OR, or WA

• Clean & sanitary -
Lowest oxygen

pickup
Custom Service is
Our Highest Priority • Our staff is friendly

View our video brochure at & accomadating
www.signaturebottlers.com
For more information Email david@signaturebottlers.com or call 503-720-3579

the use of industry experts rather than needing to pumped to our trailer to begin the bottling pro-
train employees on the ins and outs of the bottle cess.”
machine each year.
That process starts with the empty wine bot-
Quality Bottling with tles being fed onto an unscrambling table where
Experienced Professionals Signature uses inverted bottle cleaning and nitro-
gen to expel any debris while simultaneously
Dave Scholz, President of Signature Mobile removing oxygen from the bottle. Since nitrogen
Bottlers, knows the importance of bottling in main- is heavier than air, the bottles are turned upright
taining the integrity of a winemaker’s product. He and conveyed to the filler while remaining nitro-
operates his mobile bottling company as if the wine gen filled. A gravity-fed rotary filler dispenses the
he’s bottling is his own. Reflecting this, Signature wine into the oxygen-free environment, pushing
Mobile Bottlers offers the same quality and conve- the nitrogen up and into the bottle’s headspace.
nience of having a permanently installed bottling Auto leveling devices ensure exact fill levels before
system, but in a customized trailer that comes to quality sealing by corking or screw cap. Corks
you when you need it and out of the way when are compressed and driven into the bottle under
you don’t. The winery need only provide power, vacuum, and screw caps are installed using 400
employees to assist, and the consumables, meaning pounds of downforce. A final nitrogen dose using
bottles, labels and closures. The price for bottling Chart Industries dosing machines form and create
with them starts at about 20 cents per bottle. the seal between cap and bottle. Mechanical arms
with rollers adjusted with precise tolerances form
“After your wine has gone through all the nec- the threads and safety seal for perfect capping.
essary stages of filtration and is in a storage or Signature Mobile Bottlers use multi-head capsule
holding tank, we’re ready to bottle,” said Scholz. spinners to apply Tin, Polylam or Aluminum cap-
“Our trucks back up to your dock, and the wine is sules to provide that complete, finished bottle look.

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